From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 11 11:55: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tholian.rsasecurity.com (mail.rsasecurity.com [204.167.112.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E30F37B404 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:54:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdtihq24.securitydynamics.com by tholian.rsasecurity.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 11 Feb 2002 19:54:20 UT Received: from ebola.securitydynamics.com (ebola.securid.com [192.168.7.4]) by sdtihq24.securid.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA29268 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:54:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from spirit.dynas.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ebola.securitydynamics.com (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id g1BJsoh06098 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:54:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 8428 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2002 19:54:48 -0000 Received: from explorer.rsa.com (HELO mikko.rsa.com) (10.81.217.59) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 11 Feb 2002 19:54:48 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by mikko.rsa.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1BJskP57337; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:54:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:54:46 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Message-Id: <200202111954.g1BJskP57337@mikko.rsa.com> To: stuart@sigterm.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ping: no buffer space available Newsgroups: local.freebsd.questions References: <001101c1b2de$7107b960$d3bb2fcb@sigterm.com> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In local.freebsd.questions you write: >I recently had an ADSL connection installed. I connected it to a Pentium 75 >to gateway for a small network. After a while (anywhere from 2 to 36 hours) >the connection hangs. When I try to ping from the gateway to the outside >world I get the following message: This may or may not be the same as your problem, but... I had similar experiences when running ppp/dsl on a P166. About once a week ppp would get stuck, but when I used pppctl to it to see what was going on, it came to life again. I meant to debug ppp, but never took the time to do it, and instead installed a cron job that did "pppctl /var/run/pppctl-sock show phy > /dev/null" every two minutes. Ugly, but it sort-of worked. After switching to a faster machine (Celeron 400), the problem has only occured once in six months. I suspect some kind of timing-sensitive bug in ppp, which is more likely to show up on a slower machine. There might be other clues in the ppp log as well. >ping: no buffer space available That is the result of ppp not reading packets. $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message